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Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, a Democratic, defeated his Republican challenger, Dick Zimmer, by more than a dozen percentage points to win a fifth term. Mr. Lautenberg raised twice as much money as Mr. Zimmer, a former congressman. Mr. Zimmer, 64,...

May 27, 2008, Tuesday

Richard A. Zimmer, who left the House of Representatives to run unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1996, then failed to win back his House seat in November, is returning to Washington to lobby his old colleagues. Mr. Zimmer, 56, a Republican, is...

July 10, 2001, Tuesday

Days before New Jersey voters chose a new senator in 1996, a conservative group affiliated with the National Rifle Association sent out an urgent letter to 144,000 of its sympathizers in the state, warning them that the Republican candidate,...

May 4, 2001, Friday

As the recount he requested in the 12th Congressional District showed Dick Zimmer losing even more votes to Rush Holt, the Democratic incumbent, Mr. Zimmer called it off and conceded last week. Mr. Zimmer, the Republican candidate, was losing by 653...

December 3, 2000, Sunday

Dick Zimmer, the Republican candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District, admitted defeat yesterday and asked for a halt to the recount he had requested. The figures had showed him losing even more ground to Representative Rush Holt, the...